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“It is better to try to light a candle than to curse the dark.”

Big 3 or Pig 3..? (Ejaz Butt Zindabad).

PCB distances itself from Ijaz Butt’s “sons of pigs” remark.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) moved quickly on Tuesday to distance itself from a “sons of pigs” reference to India, England and Australia made by former chairman Ijaz Butt.

Butt, head of the PCB between 2008-11, made the comment as he came out of the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore after a meeting with current chairman Najam Sethi to discuss the structural changes at the International Cricket Council (ICC) ruling body.

Pakistan abstained from voting in favour of the changes at an ICC meeting in Singapore earlier this month, and has opposed the reforms which effectively hand control of world cricket to India, Australia and England.

Asked on live television what he thought about the ‘Big Three’ boards, Butt said: “Listen don’t quote me but in my personal opinion all three are sons of pigs”.

A PCB official reacted speedily to Butt’s remark by saying: “It’s his opinion not the board’s. We have no more comment to make”.

Butt added that Pakistan now needed to safeguard their own interests in world cricket.

“Every board is looking after its own interests and that is what we also must do,” he said.

Sethi has been meeting former heads of the PCB on the ‘Big Three’ issue after taking over as chairman last week. He has made it clear that Pakistan will be reviewing their stance on the ICC changes.

“I don’t believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.”

— John Travolta

Believe-In-Yourself is to have confidence in yourself and your abilities.

“…Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”

Ayn Rand (1905-1982);
writer, philosopher

“You create your opportunities by asking for them.”

— Shakti Gawain

“I haven’t a clue how my story will end, but that’s all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that’s when you discover the stars.”

Nancy Willard (born 1936);
children’s author, poet, and novelist

Rely on Routines to Free Your Mental Energy

Every time you make a decision — which candidate to hire, whether to delegate a task, even what to eat for lunch — you create mental tension. Our energy to make decisions is limited; stress and fatigue can keep us from making good ones. Use routines to reduce the number of decisions you have to make: If there’s something you need to do daily, try doing it at the same time every day. For example, establish a ritual for preparing for work in the morning. That might begin with checking e-mails and voice mails and responding to the urgent ones first to make it easier to move more quickly to important projects. Set up a similar routine for packing up to go home at night. Once you’ve put less-important decisions on autopilot, you’ll free up your energy for things that matter more.

Adapted by HBR from the HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work.

Zaka says he refused ICC presidentship for country
Undemocratic step of democratic government to harm Pakistan cricket

February 17, 2014 AZHAR KHAN The Nation.

“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”

— John Henry Jowett